• Tolstoshev@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    The DOJ wants a “win” so they will settle for a couple hundred million and claim victory. Nothing will change.

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    1 year ago

    Ticketmaster exists to arbitrage between your favorite band’s reputation and the economic conditions of the venues where they might perform.

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      1 year ago

      In other words, everyone, including your favorite bands, likes things the way they are. Things will not change unless the fans take a stand, which means things will never change.

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        1 year ago

        That’s not true.

        Many bands have been very vocal about how much they dislike ticketmaster. Some have gone to great lengths to avoid ticketmaster or attempt to circumvent many of ticketmaster’s practices.

        Ticketmaster isn’t about keeping you from hating your band, ticketmaster charges fees to be an extra parasite in the industry and encourage scalping on their websites to charge fees multiple times for the same ticket.

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      1 year ago

      Values and artists get a fairly large chunk of the fees

      Ticketmaster’s real service is being the bad guy to take the heat off venue’s and artists

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    1 year ago

    Comrad! Your title might not match the title of the article you linked! Could you please double check, and edit your post title if it indeed does not match? article title: “Swifties rejoice: Feds home in on Ticketmaster antitrust case” (Similairity: ~28%).

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